In the last blog, I was so happy that my macarons were starting to resemble macarons and not just some weird-shaped almond cookies. Yay! And even though my oven is not behaving that cooperatively on most days (On some cold winter days, it could take up to an hour to get the pilot lit properly -- arghhh), I found ways around it (here)....
Two years ago, I embarked on a journey to try to bake French macarons but got so discouraged and humbled that I swore to never go on this hair-pulling, teeth-grinding, suicide-inducing baking experience ever again. Alas, I should have known better. You guessed it, never say never, right? So here I am again, being drawn into the labyrinth of recipes and techniques, and...
I've adapted the recipe by Noreen's Kitchen to make only half the recipe. Here it is. Ingredients: 3 1/4 - 4 cups all-purpose flour 1/3 cup mashed potato flakes 1/3 cup sugar 1 packet instant yeast 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup warm water 1/2 stick butter 1/2 cup pineapple juice 1 large egg (2 medium ones) 1 tsp vanilla Directions: 1....
Recipe by กินเที่ยวกับ yaya yayai Ingredients: Bread flour 200 g ( 2 c.) cake flour 50 G ( 1/2 c.) yeast 1 1/2 teaspoon milk 120 G ( 3/4 c.) luke warm egg 1 sugar 4 Tbsp...
It's been a while since I baked apple pie. And the other day, I went to McDonald's and got their apple pie on a rainy day -- Ummmm... I forgot how I miss the cinnamon & nutmeg aroma and the gooey juice of the apple. So I decided to make one today, since it was cold out and thus perfect weather to bake...
This year, we didn't have so many apples from our tree and I was busy baking other things and haven't had a chance to bake any pies or galettes. Maybe the fact that it hasn't got cold till now is another reason. So today, I'm craving some and started looking in my blogs for the recipe but found that I didn't write it...
My most vivid memory of the things I learned during the 4 years of French literature has been these "petites madeleines" from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time or À la recherche du temps perdu. The most quoted passage is this one. ..No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I...
